Neither Tories nor Fords come close to conservative
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If Rob Ford were actually a conservative instead of a spoiled, rich Baby Huey, he’d have saved us $1 million or more a year by not dumping poisonous fluoride into our drinking water. Conservatives don’t believe in medicating people without an individual diagnosis and certainly not without their cons...
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‘Jack’ shows CBC’s mettle, despite right-wing gripers
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Jack Layton and I were very close. He always recognized me, even when running into me on the street when no one could know we’d be in the same place that time. So I believed he really knew me and valued our friendship. And he would let me in on whatever was going on.Jack knew my background, my histo...
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Corporations occupy Sugar Beach and lock you out
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You thought it was your beach, didn’t you? That surprisingly successful highly creative beach at the foot of Jarvis St. opposite the Redpath Sugar refinery was constructed with $14 million of public money and the city’s Parks Department is renting it out to corporations.What had been widely criticiz...
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Canadians should be paying low gas & oil prices
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Canadians should be paying bargain prices for oil and gas, and for any other natural resources produced in this country. Instead, the federal government has bought into the wrong-headed notion that since there is a “world price” for petroleum and other commodities produced here, Canadians should be ...
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Robbie, did we make another big fat mistake?
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Twannnggg! Oh, Robbie! Have we made another big, fat mistake? Was electing you to the top office in our city just strumming another frayed string in that ukulele of dopey Toronto mayors? There are moments when you make Mel Lastman seem brilliant by comparison and the Blond Bomb, David Miller, appear...
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Journalists as a pack of dogs
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The sad case of Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale and His Worship Mayor Rob Ford whisks me back to the only journalism "professor" I ever had or needed. It was Miss Barbara Garfunkel, who taught that subject in my junior year at Miami Senior High School in 1956. (I hope this doesn’t date m...
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Paul Godfrey would sell out Canadian media
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Paul Godfrey has his interests well covered, but they won’t likely help you. The former top bureaucrat of the former Metropolitan Toronto government (he was appointed, never elected to the spot) is now CEO of Postmedia, which owns National Post.He wants to let foreigners come in and gobble up our me...
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Harper rejoices in murder
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Canada, led by Generalissimo Stephen Harper, celebrates turning over the government of Libya to Al Qaeda and other radical Islamists. They’ve replaced a horrid dictatorship with one presumably more friendly to Big Oil whom Harper openly serves.We’ll see whether that “liberation” comes to pass for th...
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Harper sells us out to foreign corporations
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Stephen Harper wants you in the poorhouse. Why else is he making free trade deals with crooked countries? We know how badly you got hosed when the previous Tory, the Rightly Despised Brian Mulroney, signed onto NAFTA.Your jobs went went to Third-World Mexico and the dirt-poor redneck states in the U...
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Globalization may be leading to the downfall of Canada
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Globalization is a terrible thing. It’s presented to us as a sign that the world is becoming more civilized, humane and democratic. But the reality is that the world is more open to tyranny as a result of globalization. Such a global tyranny is the most fearsome of all for common folk.But for the we...
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G20 shows how sorely we need better cops
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Compared with Jackboot Julian Fantino, the law’n’order poseur who was our previous police chief, current Chief Bill Blair is a pretty good guy. Fantino turned our thin blue line into a black line with intimidating stormtrooper-colour uniforms. He scoffed at ground-level neighbourhood policing and wa...
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LIberals should dump McGuinty now or lose bigtime in October
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Before it’s too late, the Ontario Liberals should force Dalton McGuinty out the back door and out of the party’s leadership. Months ago when the Toronto Star published the picture of an old man lying on the floor in a private old-age home, Dalton said, essentially, “That’s it, I’ve got to run again....
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Yesterday’s pot was just as potent as today’s pot
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Margaret Wente, the often-brilliant Globe & Mail columnist, obviously went through her youth without scoring any good weed. Otherwise why would she have written not long ago that today’s pot isn’t like the stuff your father toked? You’ve got to ask, just what was Maggie smoking? In her view, tod...
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This nasty TCHC mess could be our downfall
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I really hate to write this. But it’s just so egregiously manifest that things are converging to create havoc Downtown if remedies aren’t put in place quickly.If the city’s much-envied successful experiment in modern urban housing brings down the neighbourhood where it was founded, the fault will li...
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Arson can trump restrictive building rules
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My friend Slovo the Shoemaker likes to shock me with tales of his life in the “old country” before moving to Toronto. He makes it sound as if he once lived in the most corrupt place on earth.I tell him that and he snorts: “It’s no different there than here, only here we speak mostly English.”His las...
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Can Toronto avoid becoming a police state?
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The land of my birth, where I was educated, in whose army I served, has become a police state, abandoning the high-minded principles under which it was founded. It has demolished its once-sacred Constitution and is sponsoring a continental tyranny that may swallow a complicit Stephen Harper governme...
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A tale of two city builders
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This is about two businessmen who contribute in striking ways to the richness of our Downtown landscape and create destinations that attract visitors from around the world. Both, in different ways, deal in the preservation of history: one on land, the other on the lake. Don’t sell tourism short beca...
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Be afraid! Be very very afraid!
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Its title may sound harmless, but the Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) is an iron fist in a velvet glove. It is a bureaucrat's dream come true, which would allow Health Canada and its inspectors access to private property without a warrant; would impose onerous reporting requirements on ...
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Cautious hopes to regain our city
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The former mayor says he leaves a wonderful legacy and that most people in Toronto agree. It just goes to show that David Miller is as a big a dumbbell going out as he was coming in seven years earlier.He knew practically nothing about governing the city as a councillor, and learned the same after ...
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Conrad Black weighs in on the mayoral fray
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I’m a great admirer of many aspects of my fellow media mogul, Conrad Black. True, he’s a bit richer, but he had a head start on that and I’m trying to catch up.Among the things I admire about him is his scrupulous honesty. While he’s a notably voracious businessman, Conrad would never jeopardize him...
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Author Frank Touby interviewed by World Press online magazine
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Worldpress: In your book "Burning Sands" you write about your experience fighting the oilfield fires in Kuwait that Saddam Hussein lit 19 years ago. You got a position as a trainee oilfield firefighter with Safety Boss Ltd., of Calgary, Alberta, to essentially better entrench yourself as a...
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Would Rob Ford be as big a catastrophe as Miller?
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He’s the political Luddite of city hall, and like the dead canary in a coal mine, Rob Ford signals the presence of lethal gasses that have all but killed the progressive brand in Toronto. For that you can thank David Miller, who’s matched only by Barack Obama as the greatest elected disappointment o...
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Let's quit hanging badges on bullies
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Do we really want men and women in uniform who think being a cop is just a good job? I think we don’t. And we don’t have to settle for that, either. The staggering lawful power each police officer commands over other citizens—including other cops—calls for a much higher order of citizen than just so...
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City bureaucrats pull a fast one on us
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All the hoopla about a new St. Lawrence North Market design belies an ugly truth about city hall. It’s populated with deceivers and obstructers paid for by your tax money. Locals have been tricked by high-paid bureaucrats who have been scrambling to feather their nests and stake out their turfs whil...
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Frank Touby: G20 proves Harper and his Tories despise you, Toronto
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“Hello dirtbag.
You live or work Downtown and you’re a suspect. For all we in the Harper
government know, you’re a deadly enemy bent on terrorism against the
multinational corporations we honour and serve…and even, perhaps, worship a
little bit.”
That’s the
unabashed attitude the Harper...
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Dozy or doctrinaire pols, bureaucrats let unions hurt us
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I really hate to have to tell this story, because although I’ve never been a union member, I have in my lifetime worked for a few rotten, abusive employers (including for a time the late unlamented Frank Roberts, founder of Obus Forme, who openly sexually harassed his female employees and was subseq...
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Touby: Are they covering their butts selling off your property?
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How about another pack of Highway 407 giveaways? That’s what neocon make-believe liberal Dalton McGuinty is offering you to make himself look less like the loser he is. He’s having you join him in that column by asking the lowest form of socalled bankers to look into bailing himself out of Ontario’s...
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Harper covers up Prince of Pot details
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The fate of Marc Emery, known worldwide as the Prince of Pot, is in the hands of Canada’s Justice Minister Rob Nicholson. The Justice Minister will decide to approve or refuse the extradition of Emery to the United States at any time after January 8th. Emery is a well-known Canadian businessman, act...
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Touby: Very convenient untruth in an Inconvenient Truth
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I am shocked and saddened to report that human caused global warming is likely a scam and that Environmental Saint Al Gore may be little more than an avaricious businessman picking as many pockets as he can. Perhaps by now you may have finally seen this story in the so-called “mainstream media.”
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Touby: Lame-duck mayor quacks while contenders preen
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There’s nothing like a lame duck mayor to bring the mice and a few rats out of the woodwork. In this case the duck has started to waddle limply a year too soon (or years too late in many estimations) and the city hall woodwork will be overrun with hopeful rodents. Already we have Giorgio Mammoliti i...
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